The release of a pro-Kurdish MP who stood for election from jail is causing a row in Turkey.
The Supreme Court in Turkey handed down a 20-month suspended prison sentence to a former energy minister Friday for irregularities in the awarding of an energy contract, but acquitted him of 18 other counts of corruption.
DUBAI — The UAE youth basketball team are in Turkey on the second phase of their preparations for the AGCC Youth Basketball Championship scheduled to be held at the Sharjah Club sports hall from August 19-25.
Using a successful campaign strategy that saw all its candidates running as independents in order to circumvent Turkey’s high election threshold, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) managed to get 22 of its members elected in the recent Turkish elections, enough to allow the stealth candidates to regroup in parliament under their party’s banner.
Foreign investors are following in the footsteps of holidaymakers and choosing Turkey as one of their favourite destinations, and the boom could be set to continue following last week’s elections.
Turkey's foreign minister has hinted he may make another presidential bid, following his party's victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections. Abdullah Gul said Wednesday in Ankara that he can not ignore what he said is popular support for his candidacy.
Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted party says its victory in parliamentary elections Sunday is a message to the secularist military to stay out of politics.
The July 22 general election in Turkey resulted in a landslide victory for the Islamic rooted Justice and Development party, or AK. While many people in Turkey are still coming to terms with the scale of the victory, another important decision - who will be president - is coming in the near future.
ISTANBUL: The Islamic-inspired governing party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated a larger-than-expected victory in the nationwide parliamentary elections, taking close to half the total vote in a stinging rebuke to Turkey's old guard.
ANKARA, July 27 (Reuters) - Turkey can now dispense with the International Monetary Fund loans which have helped nurse its economy back to health after the deep financial crisis of 2001, the governor of the central bank said on Friday.